Workmen's advocate. (New Haven, Conn.) 1883-1891, 1887-11-19
F0ULEST MURDER.
BRAVE MEN DIE BRAVELY FOR
LABOR'S CAUSE.
The Lying Public Press Adds Insult TO
Injury-One Wrong Begets An.
Other-IOathsOm HypOc.
risy Of Modern SOci'
ety-NOt Ended

Aside from the reprchensibility of
"lawful" murder-capital punish
ment-the execution of the so-called
anarchists was crime of the kind
that brings it's perpetrators and abet-
tors into the category of the most
dangerous criminals and enemies of
the masses the working people. 1t
matters not that these masses are too
befogged by their surroundings and
their false education to appreciate
the sacrifices of their advocates or
the cunning hypocrisy Of their rulers
and teachers crime has been COM
mitted against them in the murder
of August Spies, editor; Alfred R.
Parsons, compositor; George Engel,
editor; Adolph Fischer, printer, and
Louis Lingg, carpenter; and in the
imprisonment for life of Michael
Schwab, bookbinder, and Samuel
Fielden, carpenter. That the engin-
cry of the law Nas used in this case
does not detract from its criminallty
any more than it did in the case of
Socrates or Jesus Christ; nor will
the continuation IN power Of the
class that judged them and murdered
them have any other than the natur-
al result-destruction. When ma
tion is criminal it is also suicidal.
The fact that such crime as that
against the victims of capitalism
could be committed by the State is
of itself an evidence of decay. The
fear of the preaching of any doctrine
is confession of weakness in the
face of logic presented.
1t must not be supposed that the
men of Chicago had for their object
the destruction of society. This has
been stated over and over again by
the lying capitalist press. None but
lunatics could advocate such insan-
ity, and their advocacy could not
possibly frighten a people
who had done no wrong. Their OBJ
iect was not murder and rapine-
quite the contrary. They opposed
murder and rapine, and they had
murderers and thieves opposed to
them. They denounced system of
society which permits the cold blood
ed robbery of laborers women
and children; a system that drives
young girls to prostitution and young
men to vice. Spies had at one time
exposed murderous plot of So
called detectives to incite striking
coal miners to violent deeds in order
to be able to shoot them down like
dogs. And why should detectives
desire to do this? Not for mere
bloodthirstlness; no; but in order
that they might be hired by the
frightened capitalists to protect
"their" property. And so Spies was
special mark for vengeance. And
what does this prove? Does it not
prove that the system which drives
men to such extremlties to get liv-
ing is rotten to the core?
When the workingmen gathered
at the Hayma ket to denounce the
wanton butchery of some of their
fellows by the police the day before,
they naturally offended someone.
When they denounced system that
would entail such wrongs, they Of
Tended. Whom could the denuncia-
tions of the workingmen offend ?
Why should anyone be offended at
the condemnation of robbery and
murder? The class Of robbers and
murderers were the ones offended,
and they were angry because their
crimes were openly denounced.
Having no standard of morality they
they did not hesitate to commit an
other crime, and that crime was the
armed attack upon the Haymarket
meeting, threatening a few hundred
men, women and children with
death.
Some one threw bomb and killed
a few of the attacking party. Who